Microswitch keyboard DIY

Riazm sez, "This guy apparently was permanently dissatisfied with commercial keyboards and the quality of their microswitches, so he designed the massive custom behemoth. He also has a customised mouse, some footpedals and a variety of custom programmable keypads to do stuff with. Overall his desk must look pretty intimidating."

I will be goddamned if this isn't the coolest keyboard in the multiverse.

It is normal to rest some weight on the fingers during typing. The need to lift fingers from the keyboard to avoid pressing keys seems likely to generate a fairly continuous low-level stress. Typists spend a lot of their time doing this anyway - and so far additional stress is not noticable.

Touch typing demands that the fingers feel their way to the correct positions to some extent. Though the activation force on the keys is very low, they still have a couple of millimeters of travel - and it remains reasonably practical for fingers to feel the locations of the keys without actually pressing them.

Another problem is accidental keypresses. These tend to be caused by reaching for one key without fully retracting the other fingers.

These drawbacks would become increasingly severe if the activation forces were reduced further - and could be alleviated by increasing them somewhat.

Link (Thanks, Riazm!)

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